Biography
Peru Tad Williams belongs to dozens of fantastic books. His cycles "Memory, Grief and Turn", "Inosier", "March of Shadows" absorb the reader with the subtlety of the narration, the psychology of characters and the abundance of magical, amazing phenomena. Even George R. R. Martin, the creator of the "Song of Ice and Flame" series, is delighted with Williams's creativity. In total, more than 17 million copies of his novels were prompted in the world.Childhood and youth
Robert Paul Williams was born on March 14, 1957 in San Jose, California, and grew up in Palo Alto - the informal capital of Silicon Valley, the birthplace of the world's largest corporations Apple, Facebook and Tesla Motors.
The copyright name of the TED appeared thanks to Mother Williams: she called the Son as a child in his childhood in honor of one of the characters of the Comic "Pogo" Walter Kelly.
Before becoming a fiction writer, Ted Williams changed many professions: the newspapers spread, sold shoes, managed a large financial firm and drawing illustrations for army methods. The man came to creativity in the late 1980s.
Personal life
Happily developed the personal life of Ted Williams - along with his wife Deboroi beat he raised two children. Now the family lives in Northern California with "so the number of cats, dogs, turtles, domestic ants and banana slugs, which cannot be counted." The writer recognized that she was ready to even start an "instagram" for the sake of the photo of his pets.Books
The passion for fiction Williams was instilled in Mom, who read the magic stories of Edith overnight, Kenneth Graham and, of course, John R. R. Tolkina.
"I was 11 years old when I first read the" Lord of the Rings "." After that, the idea of creating magic worlds and stories that will never happen in reality captured me. But I truly wanted to become a writer when I read the Roman "Rainbow, Thomas Pinchon," recalls a science fiction.In a long list of authors who inspired Williams on literary accomplishments, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Philip K. Dick, Jorge Luis Bruhees, William Shakespeare and even Jane Austin.
In Williams, by the way, also see Muse. For example, its cycle "Memory, Sorrow and Tern" among the works pushed George R. R. Martin to the creation of the "Song of Ice and Flame" series. The echoes of his creativity can be found from Robin Hobb, Terry Gudcaynd, Blake Charlton.
The first work that Ted Williams was carried out to the publisher, became the novel "The tailbone, or the adventure of the young cat" (1985). To make the publishers read the manuscript, the science ficture was hearing, which plans to paint written and immediately destroy. The trick worked. Daw Books appreciated the book for advice and gave to print.
At the same time, Williams did not stop working. For example, from 1987 to 1990, he compiled instructions for Apple: Communicated with engineers, and then explained in a simple language how to fix a particular technical problem. This experience was based on the "Inozier" cycle.
Since 1990, Williams has been engaged only by literature.
The writer chose fiction and fantasy as the main genres, because they give freedom: "I can compose for the main character any biography, to do everything that I want, but every 5-10 pages something awful will try to eat it. Readers are favorably belong to experiments in fantasy. "
Williams is to long and complex novels. The cycle "Memory, Grief and Turn" was originally conceived as a trilogy, but the final book "To the Tower of the Green Angel" came out so voluminous that it had to be crushed into two - "Wise Road" and "Green Angel Tower". The same fate has suffered a series of "march of shadows".
The Bobby Dollar cycle consists of shorter books. To such a decision, Williams came consciously, because "people scares the size of my works." In this case, not bound to be interconnected.
Writers compose books in different ways: to someone it is important to first draw the heroes and circumstances, and Williams focuses on the idea. For example, the Cold War was based on the Bobby Dollar, and the idea of "memory, grief and tern" is to describe the world after the death of the great king, like King Arthur. As the basis of Williams takes a few ideas, mixes them and looks like a living plot.
In the bibliography of Ted Williams there are cycles "Memory, Grief and Turn", "Inosier", "Marsh of Shadows", "Adventures on an ordinary Farm", "Bobby Dollar" and "The Last King of Osten Arda". The novels are created outside the series.
Ted Williams now
The writer is not in a hurry. On May 7, 2019, information appeared on his official site that the 2nd Roman "The Last King of Osten Arda" cycle was presented in the USA and the United Kingdom. He continues the plot of the 1st part of the witchcraft of the Witch. The series is planned as a trilogy.Bibliography
Cycle "Memory, Grief and Turn":
- 1988 - "Throne of the Dragon Bones"
- 1990 - "Farewell rock"
- 1993 - "Wind Road"
- 1993 - "Green Angel Tower"
Cycle "Inosier":
- 2003 - "City of Golden Shadows"
- 2004 - "River Blue Flame"
- 1999 - "Mountain of Black Glass"
- 2001 - "Sea of Silver Light"
Cycle "Marsh Shadows":
- 2007 - "Marsh of Shadows"
- 2010 - "Shadow Game"
- 2010 - "Sunrise Shadow"
- 2010 - "Heart of Shadows"
Cycle "The Last King Osten Arda":
- 2017 - "Witch Witch"
- 2019 - "Empire Grass"